Top Retail Website Load Speeds Continue to Slow Down

The median load time for home pages of the top 500 US retail websites (as ranked by Alexa) continues to slow down, climbing to 7.72 seconds during the Summer from 7.65 seconds in the Spring of this year, and far above the ideal load time of less than 3 seconds, per results [download page] from Radware’s latest E-Commerce Page Speed and Web Performance study. The report also introduces a new metric – “Time to Interact” (TTI) – which analyzes the “point at which a page displays its primary interactive content.” (more…)